Sacramento Construction Site Injury Lawyers
California Personal Injury Attorneys
Founded
in 1993, Demas & Rosenthal is the law firm that believes in getting
to know each and every client on a personal level to successfully
represent California injury victims. Sacramento attorneys, John Demas
and David Rosenthal, started their firm with the vision of achieving
justice and obtaining maximum results for serious injury victims. With
extensive experience in all types of serious personal injury and
wrongful death cases, Demas & Rosenthal will not quit until your
case is settled.
Construction Injuries
Construction
site employees work in one of the most dangerous occupations in the
country. Hundreds of thousands of workers are injured and even killed
in construction site accidents each year. With the large amount of
construction going on in California today, here are some important
things to know about construction injuries:
- It is the responsibility of the construction companies to thoroughly inspect each site with safety engineers and provide safety programs
for employees. When these measures are not implemented or fail to
protect construction workers, the owners, architects, insurance
companies, and equipment manufacturers can be legally responsible.
- Third party negligence
means the manufacturers of the various equipment and products used on
the site can be found liable. It is also possible that subcontractors
and even the general contractor may be contractually responsible for
damages.
- Worker's compensation provides
those workers injured on the job, or suffering from a disease while in
the course of employment, benefits that include payments based on the
employee's wages and total or partial disability. Unfortunately, this
alone may not be enough compensation.
Around
40% of all construction site fatalities involve electrocution. Other
accidents and injuries that can take place at a construction site
include:
- Construction Site Falls.
One-third of the nearly 1000 construction workers who will be killed on
the job this year are caused by falls. The worksite might be unstable.
Fall protection equipment might be misused. Many of the deaths and
injuries from falls can be prevented when the proper precautions are
made.
- Crane Accidents. Many serious and
fatal injuries involving cranes occur each year when the crane touches
a power line, when workers assemble and dismantle the crane, and
various failures of the crane's construction.
- Scaffolding Accidents.
Most are attributed to negligent construction and maintenance of the
scaffolding. 10,000 of the 500,000 injuries that occur annually on
construction sites are associated with work on scaffolds.
- Compressed Gases Hazards.
Mechanical as well as chemical dangers accompany the wide use of
compressed gases in construction projects. Failure to follow safe
handling procedures injures thousands of workers each year.
- Dangerous and Defective Machines.
Serious injuries result from moving machine parts when safeguards meant
to protect workers are not implemented. Such preventable injuries can
occur when using mechanical power presses, nail guns, and other
dangerous machines.
- Mechanical Hazards. The
point of operation, power transmission apparatus and other moving parts
of machines pose hazards on construction sites. These basic components
of almost all machines need to be recognized as such, and safety
measures must be taken to protect those on the site.
- Logging Accidents.
Possibly the most dangerous occupation in the country, logging can
cause serious accidents. Massive weights and irresistible momentum of
falling, rolling and sliding trees and logs are involved in daily
operations, and when these hazards are combined with dangerous
environmental conditions such as uneven terrain, wind or extreme cold,
logging poses significant risks on employees.
- Welding, Cutting and Brazing Accidents.
These hazardous activities pose safety and health risks that require
employers to determine all exposures to hazards in the workplace and
determine what protective equipment should be used.
Construction Accident Links
California Workers' Compensation Institute
http://www.cwci.org/
Construction Equipment Accidents
http://equipmentaccidents.com/
Workers' Compensation Notice!
Making
a false or fraudulent workers' compensation claim is a felony subject
to up to 5 years in prison or a fine of up to $50,000 or double the
value of the fraud, whichever is greater, or by both imprisonment and
fine.
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